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April, 2008

How not to fix a compilation error

Submitted by illogic-al on Tue, 04/22/2008 - 20:55

Step 1. Once you think you've identified the problem and come up with a fix, forget to check it and declare the problem fixed.
Step 2. Apply your fix to the public repository and break functionality for everyone else.
Step 3. Declare you fix to the world.
Step 4. Once someone has pointed this out to you, take your time trying to figure out what went wrong.
Step 5. After confirming that you actually have a fix this time. Push your changes globally yet again.
Step 7. Look for any code which needs to be cleaned up after the fact and make changes as necessary.

Dream a dream

Submitted by illogic-al on Mon, 04/21/2008 - 22:58

I had another one of my dreams again. But this time it didn't end with me in hell. I just died, or felt like I was about to. And I was scared. Usually what terrifies me about these dreams isn't the fact that I'm dying, it's that I'm going to hell. That's progress at least, right?

D2-Lightful!

Submitted by illogic-al on Mon, 04/14/2008 - 23:46

I almost forgot to mention that I recieved the Cowon D2 that I ordered recently. It's a great little PMP that plays many audio and video formats out there today. I only care about vorbis playback as that is what most of my music library is encoded in. My previous player, my iRiver clix was getting on my nerves somewhat. Little things like losing the on-the-go playlists whenever the battery died, or even after charging sometimes got on my nerves. It was a replacement for my previous PMP, a Cowon iAudio X5 (which I broke, lost, found, didn't fix and then got tired of).

Purpose

Submitted by illogic-al on Mon, 04/14/2008 - 23:24

I lost sight of what I came here to do a while ago. Easy to do when you're both as forgetful and ditzy as me. I remembered that today and I feel kind of lost now. I have to find some way to get back to doing what I was meant to be doing. All the while fixing the giant mess I've left in my wake. Well, maybe it's not a giant mess. It's still on this side of fixable, so that at least, is good.

Battlestar Galactica is back. Nuff said.

Submitted by illogic-al on Mon, 04/07/2008 - 00:38

And this comment I found today makes it all worthwhile.
http://digg.com/comedy/Don_t_call_the_head_of_HR_a_skank_ho_pic?t=141860...

How could I have forgotten?

What dbus is going on?

Submitted by illogic-al on Sat, 04/05/2008 - 18:44

I compiled the qt 4.4 RC on mac yesterday and afterwards none of my KDE apps were working. Since KDE 4.0 dbus (which i am beginning to loathe) has been required for KDE to do whatever it does. No dbus = no gui. For some reason after compiling the RC qt apps don't connect to my d-bus. I know, you see what I did there.
Whatever, my point is this shit is seriously cramping my style. I have an Amarok .app package that needs making and crap like this is making my life harder than it has to be.
Guess I'll check back in in a week or two. Really hate dbus now. Seriously.

Wow, that looks horrible

Submitted by illogic-al on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 14:04

So KDE 4.1-svn edition still looks like utter crap on OS X. Especially with the oxygen theme enabled. Sucks that KDE GUI elements don't align properly with Qt's Mac style then doesn't it...